Solicitor

Shelter; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Pension

Interest-free travel loans

Tenancy deposit loan

Payroll giving

Cycle to work

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Shelter Sheffield is seeking a solicitor to deliver legal advice and court representation under our Housing Loss Prevention Service. The role focuses on challenging unfair housing practices and driving systemic change, while collaborating with the Sheffield hub to raise housing rights awareness in the community.

You will support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring high professional standards and compliance as part of our Housing Legal Team.

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor with an interest in social justice and housing law.
• 3+ years PQE with proven housing law/Legal Aid experience.
• Ability to deliver high-quality legal advice and court representation.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and representation under Housing Loss Prevention Service.
• Challenge unfair housing practices and systemic homelessness causes through strategic casework and litigation.
• Support the Sheffield team and Trainee Solicitors to maintain high professional standards and compliance.
• Help raise housing rights awareness in the community.

Skills

Housing law

Legal Aid experience

Court representation

Strategic litigation

Team collaboration

Education

Solicitor qualification

Job description

Using your legal expertise, you will play a key role in tackling housing in justice and unfair housing practices. You will be working under our Legal Aid contract, delivering legal advice and representing tenants at court where needed. Delivering systemic change through legal challenge to prevent homeless will also be a considerable part of the role. You will also work with the team in the Hub to help make sure people in the community are aware of their housing rights and how to enforce them, as well as providing support to Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring good practice and compliance.

• Be a qualified Solicitor - we are open to newly qualified candidates with a demonstrable interest in social justice, as well as those who have 3+ years PQE and a strong track record in housing law and Legal Aid work


• Deliver high-quality legal advice and representation under our work as part of the Housing Loss Prevention Service, which provides free legal advice and court representation to anyone at risk of losing their home


• Challenge unfair housing practices and systemic causes of homelessness through strategic casework and litigation


• Work closely with our Sheffield team to strengthen housing rights awareness across the area


• Support Trainee Solicitors and Legal Advisers, ensuring high professional standards and compliance

Working with Shelter means being part of a passionate team that believes a safe home is a fundamental right. Here, your legal skills don't just change lives—they shape a fairer housing system.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It's our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency. We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything. We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement.

In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent.

We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter.

We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

About The Team

Our Legal Service provides specialist legal knowledge across Shelter through four teams covering Community Legal advice, Strategic Litigation, and Legal Support Team. You will be part of our Community Legal Team, who are based across our 11 hub locations and work alongside hub colleagues every day to fight housing injustice and deliver systemic change relating to housing practice in our local communities. Shelter Sheffield has a housing legal contract as well as a contract to deliver the County Court Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service at Sheffield and Doncaster. You will be based in the Sheffield community hub which has the overall aim of preventing homelessness and improving homelessness services for the people of South Yorkshire. The advice and support team in Sheffield has been established for over 20 years, taking a holistic approach and focuses on emergency homelessness, support for children, families and people experiencing domestic abuse, as well as those with multiple and complex needs.

Benefits

• 30 days of annual leave


• enhanced family friendly policies


• pension


• interest free travel loans


• tenancy deposit loan


• payroll giving


• cycle to work scheme


• employee assistance programme